The Top 5 Free Antivirus Software in 2018

Security is the essential factor for everyone to consider in the first place before using a computer. Also, there are a slew of antivirus solutions out there providing different level of protection for your computer, both paid and free. For most of users, it’s not a necessity to deploy a premium security option for your home or personal computers, I am going to list out a set of most used antivirus softwares that don’t cost a dime.

1. Avira Free Antivirus
Avira Free Antivirus earns the largest user base over all other free AV softwares because of many things:

easy to install
clear and intuitive interface
strong detection and protection ability
various scan modes including scan on a schedule
support for integration with a slew of add-on
light performance impact on your system
the ability of automatically dealing with threats

The best thing about Avira is Protection Cloud feature, which creates and shares the repair for a threat found on any of it’s users computer across all users Avira.
The drawback that should be noticed is that Avira’s installer bundles promotion for other Avira products though they’re free. Also, Avira keeps sending ads at run time.

2. AVG Antivirus Free
AVG Antivirus Free and Avira are backed by the same company, it continues to be easy to use and offer decent detection and protection without a heavy impact on your system performance. After installing it in few clicks, it’s clean and highly customizable interface appears, you can easily explore the features immediately.
AVG also supports a rich scan options including scan on a schedule. In addition to the neat scan features, AVG offers protection features, it provides real-time protection for computer web and email.
AVG does not providing as much extra features as Avira does, but it is still owns the second largest user base.

3. Avast Free Antivirus
Avast Free Antivirus stands out because of its effective malware and phishing protection. It is packed with a rich set if options for scanning and all regular features for antivirus.
Despite the rich features for antivirus. Avast is also equipped with a business-class password manager and a network security scanner as bonus features, the password manager is working as a trial version.
Avast is also highly configurable and easy to use, it comes with friendly notes for most of settings on what is it and if you should change it.
Similar like Avira, Avast offers support for integration with plenty of components to gain additional features for antivirus.

4. Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition is another great free antivirus solution for most of people. It bundles all basic features for threats detection and protection with a light impact on system performance.
It is well recognized for the excellent malware detection and simple design. If you want to perform a scan to files or folders, just drag and drop them to the window of the program, you can not pause or schedule a scan.
If you are on the lookout for an antivirus software that is extremely simple to use and do not need to set a lot, then Bitdefender is the perfect fit for you.

5. Adaware Antivirus Free
Adaware Antivius is a free and easy to use. It is easy to setup and has little impact on system performance when running.
Interestingly, despite the regular mode, the program can also run alongside another antivirus software as an optional scanner. this could be of help in the case where your first-option antivirus program does not detect a threat. When you use it as optional scanner, it stops real-time protection for your syetem.
Adaware offers support for quick, full and custom scans, you can perform a thorough system scan with one click ease, schedule and custom a scan at anytime you want.

Hopefully, this has been a good introduction that helped you to find a desired antivirus software for your project. In the meanwhile, we would love to know your experience with antivirus software in the comments below.

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